A Quote by Cato the Elder

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

Quote Topics

Fools Imitate Men Mistakes More Profit Shun Successes Than Wise Wise Men

Quote Author

Cato the Elder
Roman - Statesman
234 BC - 149 BC

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato the Elder

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Cato the Younger

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Margaret of Valois

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Thomas A. Edison

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Edmund Burke

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Bob Saget

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.